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Govt caps prices of 71 drugs, including those of diabetes and cancer: How will this impact your medical bill?

July 15, 2025 4:09 pm

This list is curated by the government to include medicines that are most needed for healthcare priorities.

The prices of all essential drugs are fixed by the government’s National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA).

400 essential drug prices set to rise from April 1: Here’s all you need to know

March 28, 2025 4:05 pm

The drug list is curated by the government to include medicines most needed for healthcare priorities.

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Prices of TB, asthma, thalassemia medicines go up: Why drug regulator okayed 50% hike

October 15, 2024 6:22 pm

The medicines for which the prices have been increased are not very expensive to begin with and are not expected to hit people hard

Man travels over 150 km to deliver critical medicine to Hepatitis-B patient in Bengal

Rising costs of raw materials from China: NPPA to allow pharma cos to raise heparin price by 50%

July 02, 2020 12:50 am

The price hike also comes as heparin was among several drugs flagged by the health ministry as essential medicines that needed to remain in stock while the country battled the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

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Provide information on masks, hand sanitisers by end of day: NPPA to manufacturers

March 18, 2020 4:51 pm

Last week, NPPA directed all manufacturers and importers of surgical and protective masks, gloves and hand sanitisers to furnish information on these items by March 17, 2020.

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NPPA allows firms to hike prices of knee implants by up to 10 per cent

August 14, 2019 3:30 am

The development comes around two years after the regulator first slashed MRPs of knee implants by up to 69 per cent, using extraordinary powers granted under the country’s drug pricing regulations.

Pune part of clinical trial to prevent TB in people exposed to multi-drug resistant cases

Misreading the pharma market

July 10, 2018 6:50 am

The DPCO 2013 covers only 376 essential medicines in specific presentations and strengths. India’s domestic pharma market sales is about Rs 1.3 lakh crore per year. Perfect competition does not favour the patient.

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No easy cures

July 02, 2018 12:06 am

Drug regulator’s decision to revise last year's ceiling on paediatric drug underlines price controls can be counterproductive.

CDSCO asks state drug regulators to ‘keep a strong vigil’ on buclizine sales

Despite no cap ‘indication’, govt put knee implant under price limit

June 16, 2018 2:24 pm

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the NPPA are also documented as having given similar assurances in subsequent meetings.

Sans consultant since November, NPPA faces multiple legal hurdles

June 05, 2018 2:57 am

According to the information gathered by The Indian Express, at least 26 cases have been filed post November 30, 2017, and high courts have given relief to the firms in most of the cases by granting stay orders against any “coercive action” by NPPA.